Later in the season it .... displays its numerous clusters of trumpet-shaped cream-colored flowers [the ' bugle bloom ' of Keats] tinged with crimson, and shedding a perfume which, in sweetness, is surpassed by no other British plant. .... In October,... The Treasury of Botany ... - Page 218by John Lindley - 1866Full view - About this book
| John Lindley, Thomas Moore - History - 1874 - 708 pages
...tree, it is harmless and always beautiful. The scarlet berries are clammy to the touch, glutinous and sweet to the taste, but mawkish. In October the woodbine...grace to the fading year by producing a new crop of Bowers, which, though not so luxuriant лог so numerous as the first, are quite as fragrant. Clusters... | |
| John Milton - 1879 - 218 pages
...which, in sweetness, is surpassed by no other British plant. .... In October, the woodbine endeavors to impart a grace to the fading year by producing...summer as the early foliage united winter with spring." Well-attired. (Attire is from the Old French atour, attour, a French hood, or head-dress for a woman.... | |
| John Milton - 1879 - 232 pages
...which, in sweetness, is surpassed by no other British plant. .... In October, the woodbine endeavors to impart a grace to the fading year by producing...summer as the early foliage united winter with spring." Well-attired. (Attire is from the Old French atour, attoitr, a French hood, or head-dress for a woman.... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1879 - 216 pages
...British plant. .... In October, the woodbine endeavors to impart a grace to the fading year by prodncing a new crop of flowers, which, though not so luxuriant...berries may then be found on the same twig, uniting antumn with summer as the early foliage united winter with spring." Well-attired. (Attire is from the... | |
| John Milton - 1886 - 232 pages
...which, in sweetness, is surpassed by no other British plant. .... In October, the woodbine endeavors to impart a grace to the fading year by producing...summer as the early foliage united winter with spring." Well-attired. (Attire is from the Old French atour, attour, a French hood, or head-dress for a woman.... | |
| Charles Alexander Johns - 1892 - 458 pages
...sweet to the taste, but mawkish. In October the Woodbine, with praiseworthy perseverance, THE WOODBINK. endeavours to impart a grace to the fading year by...summer, as the early foliage united winter with spring. The name Lonicera was given to it in honour of Le-nicer, a German: Pcriclymenum is a Greek compound,... | |
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